3. Tony Hawk’s Underground
After multiple entries in which Neversoft added nearly everything you can do on a skateboard, Underground took the next logical step: It let you get off the board. For some, this is where the series began to go off the rails. But regardless of what you think of later entries, Underground felt like a big shake-up for the, at this point, five-year-old franchise.
Not only could players now walk around levels off their board, but the format of the main campaign changed. There was now a story, with cutscenes and characters. And while today the narrative of THUG seems simple, at the time I rememberbeing blown away that aTony Hawk game featured a storyline starring my own custom character.
